CAS cards

Hello! Sharon Traynor is back with her second card to inspire you today. This time it’s a masculine card featuring our awesome new ‘Art Rebel’ stamps…

I have created a one layer masculine card for a man that’s a bit of a rebel. Ha! Who doesn’t love a rebel, eh?

This card has been made using another of the new stamp sets from the Visible Image February release, and this set of stamps is perfect for fun and funky masculine cards. There are loads of smaller stamps in the set, including some brilliant fish, but I decided to do some pencil colouring on kraft card using these wonderful face stamps. The face design is so unique, isn’t it?

One good thing about making CAS cards is that they are simple to re-create. Just as well really because I had to recreate this one as I’d made the first one (above) without photographing the step-by-step.

I used polychromos pencils because they show up beautifully on kraft card. Colour the hair in a lightish brown and the face in the flesh colours. (the sun was out when I took this picture)

Then using a white and grey, colour the goggles and the teeth (then the clouds came out so these photos are duller)

Add some more white and a little blue onto the goggles. Then add some white shading on the top and left sides of each rectangle

Add a little grey shading on the bottom and right side of each rectangle. This gives the illusion that the rectangles have been 3D’d.

Next stamp the images into the goggles. Stamp the right eye in black ink, and the left eye in versamark clear. Add white embossing powder to the left eye, then brush the excess powder away from the outside to reveal the edges of the goggle, and heat emboss the central part of that eye. When cooled add some blue pencil to create a wacky eyeball.

Here’s where I diverted from my original card. I added glossy accents to the goggles. In hindsight I really wish I hadn’t, as I much prefer the original card I made.

One thing I forgot to do though was add that white pencil shading around the edges of the head. This makes the head pop off the page. You can see here how the glossy accents really affected the right eye so that you can’t see the white pencil I added to it. Anyway, lesson learnt.

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Hello! We hope you had a great weekend! We were busy in the garden making the most of a rain free Sunday. Sharon Traynor is here to inspire you today with a romantic gift set featuring some clever designing with our really cool jumbled letters stamp and ‘You Are Loved’ sentiment…

This week I have a whole gift set made with the fantastic ‘One Kind Word‘ stamp set.

Now I’m not one of those people that really ‘does’ Valentines day, but when I spotted a neat little positioning trick to make a heart shape out of this text stamp…

I just couldn’t stop myself from going crazy and making a whole coordinating gift set for Valentines day!

So, I made a matching card and envelope with some wrapping paper and a coordinating gift tag

I really love how pretty this set looks.

And it is so easy to create these too, once you see how to make the heart shape, which actually is incredibly simple to do!

Just stamp the image once Then rotate and stamp again. (The black lines in the second photo below shows the side of the stamp that I rotated and how it matched up to the first stamped image). Easy peasy!

To make the card, I stamped the typewriter and the sentiment in black ink, then stamped the heart (using the method in the photos above) over the typewriter in a pink ink.

The smallest heart from the stamp set was stamped a few times around the border and a little doodling added before mounting onto coordinating pink and black paper, and then affixing to a card blank.

On the envelope flap I stamped the heart shape again and added the ‘You Are Loved’ sentiment.

The wrapping paper was made by sticking some sheets of printer paper together and stamping the heart shape in a repeating pattern all over the paper.

The sentiment was stamped into the middle of the hearts on one row, missing the next row and stamping it again in the hearts of the row underneath, continuing like that on each alternate row until the last row on the paper. Then a smaller heart was stamped into some of the gaps in a regular pattern across the paper.

The gift tag was made by heat embossing onto black paper and fussy cutting out into a heart shape. That was then attached to white card and fussy cut to make to give a white border, and the back of the tag would then be easy to write on. An eyelet was added and the tag attached to the present with black ribbon and a few pink flowers to match.

These are so pretty Sharon! You’re the first to spot that the jumbled letters will make a heart ♡
Clever card design and gorgeous wrapping paper too. Thank you!

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Hi there! We are back with gorgeous inspiration from Veerle here on the blog today. Veerle has created a simply beautiful card featuring some stamps you would perhaps not think of putting together…

I can’t explain it but something inside of me needed to put that tree on the hand. And then it stopped in my mind. It’s the strangest feeling of needing to see those two together but it just feels right, relaxed…

And yet it didn’t feel finished so I held it in my head and I’ve let it grow… until today. I found words to match and that tiny leave to express some extra things in my head. And as happy as I am with the finished page, I feel the need to make another page with only that hand and the tree…

So I will, but first I want to share with you how I created this page and I can do so by sharing the video tutorial I made. Enjoy!

The video

Stamps used:

Veerle we don’t know how you see these things sometimes but we love this combination. Another brilliant video too.. Thank you ♡

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Good Morning and Happy Saturday! Are you feeling in the mood to dance? We think you might be when you see this awesome card by Sharon Traynor featuring our NEW Street Dance Boys stamps…

Hello lovelies!

Today I have a bit of autumnal colour inspiration for you, on a contemporary card made with some fantastic stamps from the new release by Visible Image.

I absolutely LOVE these Street Dance Boys stamps; they are such a useful set for those hard-to-make masculine cards, and for those difficult-to-please teenage boys too. This is fast becoming one of my favourite sets (along with the Hip Hop Girls) because they ‘just work’, no matter what treatment you give them. They look fabulous against an inky background yet they really don’t need much added to the card either, so they are perfect for a CAS look too.

Anyway, the theme for the monthly challenge in the Visible Image customer Facebook group is AUTUMN COLOURS. So I thought I’d just take the colours and use them with the smaller stamps in the girls and boys sets to give a bit of inspiration to anyone that enters the monthly challenge. Hope you like this one.

How to make the card:

Take two strips of card measuring 8″ x 1.25″ and make a random pattern with the small stamps from both the Hip Hop Girls and Street Dance Boys stamp sets, using all the distress ink colours except for the iced spruce. These Strips will form the outer borders of the card.

Cut a strip of white card to fit the middle (8″ x 5.5″). Lightly blend some iced spruce into the centre, then make a more open pattern with the stamps that you used on the borders over the top. Stamp the bubbles from the Set The Tone stamp set in second generation iced spruce distress ink. Let this panel dry.

Once dried, treat it with an anti-static pad and heat emboss the boy image in black embossing powder. On a spare scrap of card, heat emboss the word ‘street’ in black powder too.

TIP: if you heat from below you will achieve a smoother finish on the embossing.

Take a black marker pen and run it around the outside of the ‘street’ sentiment, and also along one edge of each of the border panels.

Attach all panels to an 8 inch square card blank and pop the sentiment up onto 3d foam.

This is such a great card design Sharon! We love how you’ve used the little shapes to create the panels and around the dancer! Thank you ♡

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Hello! We hope you are having a great weekend. Sharon Traynor is here on the blog today with a striking clean and simple card featuring our ‘Two Tone’ stencil…

Hello there. It’s time for a CAS card using another brilliant Visible Image stamp and stencil from the latest release.

This one has nice crisp lines and a geometric look, so it’d be really easy to change the colours to make this design suitable as a masculine card too.

How to make this:

Mask off an asymmetrical diagonal band on the card with masking tape, place the stencil on the top and blend distress inks through it with make-up sponges, trying to keep each colour separate, but if they blend it still looks okay. You will need to move the stencil a couple of times to fill in the whole of the band, so be sure to clean it in between each placement. Remove the masking and use a ruler and a pencil to define the edges of the inked band.

Cut the panel twice with a stitched curvy border die. When the panels are attached to the card blank, raise the top and bottom one up on fun foam and attach the middle panel directly to the card blank. Make sure to leave a gap between each panel too. Add some random dots with nuvo drops and let the card dry.

Heat emboss the sentiment in white embossing powder onto black card, cut it into a banner shape and attach it to the card on fun foam.

Stamps and Stencil Used:

(click on the picture to be taken direct to the stamp set in the online store):

That’s it from me for now. Thanks for stopping by and I really hope to see you again soon.

Hugs,
Sharon xx

Such a great card Sharon! We love how you’ve used the stencil. Thank you ♡

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Hello! We hope you are having a good day. Veerle Moreels is here to inspire you with another brilliant video today. Veerle’s beautiful card features just one of the hands and part of the sentiment from our NEW ‘You Are Not Alone’ stamp set, interpreted in her own unique way…

A touch… a feeling… a heartbeat…

Seeing the new set from Visible Image with those beautiful hands… they sure touched something inside of me. They speak to me and I want to go and create some things of which I can’t even say why I’m putting certain elements together.

For today’s project I do know what started my project. Looking at one of the hands I immediately thought of a puppet player. So I just knew I wanted to have something hanging on the hand. But it wasn’t until I started my project that I found the perfect elements.
Got you curious? I’ve got it all filmed, have fun ^.^

I hope that, when you are dangling on a thin thread, you find the strength inside of yourself and remember just how strong you are.
Lot’s of love X

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Good Evening! We are back with more gorgeous inspiration for you today. Veerle Moreels has a brilliant video tutorial showing how she created her latest card, featuring our beautiful dragonfly stamp…

A while ago I was tidying stuff up and there they were: my twinkling H2O’s. So I decided to keep them on my table and create with them again.

It wasn’t hard to choose some stamps for this project, as the soft twinkle and the colors I have here immediately bring me to the beautiful dragonfly From Visible Image. I did however decide to use another set of words for today’s project instead of the words that are in the ‘Live in the moment’ set…

I had my camera rolling again so have fun!

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Hi there! We are back with more awesome inspiration this evening. Tenia Nelson creates such fabulous clean and simple cards and today’s certainly is fabulous.. and so happy! It features the jumping girl and ‘ Just Be Happy ‘ quote from our very popular ‘Tomorrow Doesn’t Exist’ stamp set…

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Hi there! We are back with our last inspirational post for today. Veerle Moreels has created some gorgeous clean and simple cards with her fabulous watercolour backgrounds. These cards are perfect to tell a friend ‘I’m here for you always’…

One design five cards… it has been a long time since I made a video like that and I really had a lot of fun making this one. We are going for a fun technique, a back up plan for when it doesn’t work, and beautiful words from Visible Image.

Enjoy the video…

Those special people in our lives, we all have them. And I know it isn’t always easy to say out loud what you feel for them so why not make a card to let them know? All stamps I have used in this video can be found underneath. And take a look around in the shop as there are many more perfect words to put on your card or at the inside.

And if you don’t have watercolor, just take out your inks or reinkers or sprays or bister or… so many possibilities. And in worst case scenario… ink up those clouds ^.^

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Hi! We have a double dose of awesome inspiration here on the blog today. First up is Sharon Traynor, with a brilliant card featuring our hummingbird stamp…

Hello there.

I’ve been very kind to you today because my card only uses one stamp set and just a few other supplies. You really don’t need a ton of supplies to be able to create something beautiful with this amazing stamp set from Visible Image.

This beautiful hummingbird stamp was just crying out for some gorgeous blue and green colours and I just couldn’t resist a bit of water colour drippage too. The amazing black twinkle embossing powder also gives this gorgeous bird a wonderful shimmer. I hope you like it as much as I do.

How to make this card.

Stamp the hummingbird stamp in black ink onto white card using a stamp positioner tool such as a Misti. Leave the stamp on the door of the stamp positioner.

Paint the hummingbird using Gansai Tambi water colour paints. Paint clear water onto the card where you want the drips to appear, trying to match up the drips with colours used on the hummingbird. Add the paint to the top of the card for each individual drip and let it run down towards the bird. Set aside to dry.

Once dry, use an antistatic pad on the panel and re-stamp the bird again in versamark ink (that’s why you needed to leave the stamp in your stamping tool!) and heat emboss with a sparkly black embossing glitter.

Mount the panel onto gold card and add a couple of additional thin strips of the card for some added interest. Mount the panel onto a card blank. Stamp the words onto spare white card, cut them out and mount them to the panel with 3d foam.

Here’s a close-up where you can catch how sparkly the embossing glitter is.

Stamps Used:

(please click on the picture to be taken direct to the stamp set in the online store):

That’s it from me for now. Thanks for stopping by and I really hope to see you again soon.

Hugs,
Sharon xx

What a fantastic card Sharon! Loving the drips, and that sparkle is gorgeous ♡

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Hi there! Veerle Moreels is up next on the blog today, with a beautiful tag featuring our NEW ‘Butterfly Ink’ stencil and one of the inspiring sentiment stamps from our NEW ‘Stronger Than You Think’ set…

Sometimes I start thinking and looking at the world around us. And to many times I notice all the demands we need to fulfill. It all needs to go faster, it needs to be better. And strangely enough we feel the need we have to meet up with them. We can’t stay behind, we have to meet to the high standards others set for us. And without knowing we let them take away beautiful parts of us, parts that make us US.

With this in mind I had a play with one of the beautiful new released words and stencils. Very easy, and CAS but I had the camera running anyway.

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Good Afternoon! Thanking you for visiting our blog today! Sharon Traynor has got her hands on some of our new stamps and has created a very happy card featuring one of the smiley face emoji stamps from our ‘Choose Happiness’ set, and teamed it up with one of our new sentiments… Just Smile!

Hi! How’s your smile? I bet it’s beautiful. Smiles are just infectious, aren’t they? So today I’m hoping to infect you all with a smile and a bit of happiness.

I’ve used some of the wonderful brand new sets from Visible Image Stamps. Honestly, this latest release of stamps is just incredible. Have you seen the humming bird and the woods scenery sets? They are awesome (I have a few cards with those coming up in the future). And the sentiments are just fantastic too. I think each set is a winner.

Choose Happiness. That’s the set that this superb smiley face comes from, and I tell ya, I did a little happy dance when I saw it was in my DT pack. Honestly…. I don’t think there are enough hours in the day for me to do all the ideas that have popped into my head for this set. It’s a shame that I’m on holiday for two weeks because I’m itching to play with these stamps again.

Just Smile…

How to make this card

Mask the bottom portion of your card blank and blend squeezed lemonade all over the top, then blend some mustard seed in an arc at the outer edges. Secure the stencil in place then blend mustard seed, dried marigold and spiced marmalade for an ombre look to the rays.

Leave the stencil in place and stamp the lines from the Shape It Up set into the rays using the VersaColor inks. You need to mask each ray separately to make sure the lines are going in the right direction.

Stamp the smiley face in black ink, colour with Promarkers and cut it out. Stamp the sentiment onto a second piece of white card – leaving room for the smiley face to overlap, and attach that to the card blank with fun foam.

Heat emboss the silver metal leaves with gold embossing glitter.

Cut 2 circle shapes from fun foam and chop the bottom off one of the circles. Glue the middle 3 leaves onto the part circle of fun foam, and then attach that to the full circle of fun foam. Glue the outside leaves to the back of the full circle of fun foam and then attach the whole piece to the card. Attach the smiley face to the middle and finish with a few black sequins

Stamps & Stencil Used:

(please click on the picture to be taken direct to the stamp set in the online store):

Go on…..head over to the shop and take a look at the new stamps…..you know you want to 😉

Thanks for stopping by. Have a smiley day.

Hugs,
Sharon xx

We love love love this card! It really does make you smile.. who wouldn’t be cheered up if they received it in the mail?
Fabulous card design Sharon thank you ♡

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Hi there! We are back with our final dose of LOVE -ly inspiration for today.

Veerle Moreels has a beautiful card to share with you, featuring the LOVE sentiment stamp from our ‘Peace Love and Hope’ stamp set…

Hohoho… Merry… wait… what? Finally the sun is coming and snow is the last thing on my mind right now. But… I did indeed take out my Christmas stamps to make a card today ^.^ But that’s only because this set is just perfect for so many more occasions then only Christmas projects.

I really wanted to make a card to send some love over to someone, so the choice to use the word LOVE was obvious, now to build up the rest of the card… I just took my box of Visible Image stamps and looked at each set to find tiny elements that I could bring together. And I ended up with four of them in total for my background.

I firmly believe you should tell anyone that you hold dear you love them. Believe me, you can stay behind alone in a blink of an eye and then it’s to late. So who do you want to tell you love him or her today? What is holding you back…tomorrow is never promised.

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Hello! We are back with more gorgeous inspiration this evening. Sharon Traynor has a fabulous CAS card for you today.

Close your eyes to the past, open your mind to new beginnings…

What a wonderfully positive and uplifting sentiment that is.

This fab New Beginnings sentiment from Visible Image stamps was one of the ones that I couldn’t wait to use as soon as it came through my craft room door, and I knew it would be a perfect match for the closed eyes in their Face It!set too. Face It! is a set that I have had for a little while now, and I have been itching to ‘bling’ it like all those amazing glittery eye shadows that you see, but I had to wait until this sentiment arrived.

This is a fairly quick to make card because you are only spritzing with distress marker pens, stamping and adding glitter. The time consuming piece is waiting for the glitter to dry, but you can get on with other crafty projects while that happens 😉

Distress marker spritzing is one of my favourite techniques because it is a clean way to achieve the brusho look without having dyed hands for days. Maybe that’s just me – I love brushos but I do end up covered in them. Anyway, distress marker spritzing is a technique that I really don’t use enough.

How to make this:

Using distress markers and the distress marker spritzer, spritz a band of colour horizontally along the centre of a piece of card measuring 13.5cmx20cm (5.5″x8″), using first the tumbled glass marker and follow that with the salty ocean marker.

Using black ink, stamp the closed eyes onto the spritzed band. Stamp the first two lines of the sentiment above the eyes, then the last two lines of the sentiment below the eyes. Use a post-it note to mask off the lines that you do not want to stamp, and remove the post-it note before stamping.

Once the ink is dry, draw a line with glue to mark the area where the lower part of the eye lid meets the upper part of the eyelid. Sprinkle picked raspberry distress glitter over the glue and set aside to dry.

Once dry, add glue to the lower lid and sprinkle with tumbled glass distress glitter and set aside to dry again.

TIP: If you are sending something glittery to someone that doesn’t like the way that glitter sheds, you can always use glossy accents to keep the glitter in place.

Mount the panel on an A5 card blank (14.8cmx21.1cm or 5.75″x8.25″) with fun foam.

The finishing touch is to add 3 tiny gems at the side of each eye to represent glittery eye liner.

Stamps Used:

(please click on the picture to be taken direct to the stamp set in the online store):

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I’m loving how I can take a large stamp and yet still create something wonderfully clean and simple with it. This is such a beautiful seahorse stamp, but as Veerle has shown how to expertly colour it (which you can see by clicking HERE for her video), I thought I would leave it in monochrome for a contrast on my inky band.

How to make this:

First heat emboss the seahorse with clear ink and a sparkly black embossing powder, then mask the seahorse with either a post-it note or some masking fluid.

Next mask off a section of your card for the inked band and blend 3 colours of distress oxide ink (cracked pistachio, peacock feathers, salty ocean) into the unmasked area to create a smooth ombré look.

Blend more ink through the fibres stencil using broken china and peacock feathers distress oxides and next splatter water droplets onto the panel.

Use second generation ink with the two remaining stamps (the ovals and circles) in the Create Your Calm set, to add more subtle interest to the background, stamping these in faded jeans and peacock feathers distress oxides.

Remove the masking, and add your sentiment. I split the ‘own’ and ‘calm’ into two separate words using a masking technique, shown in my video, so that I only inked the word I wanted at each place.

Now ink the splatters from the Ink Splats set in salty ocean, peacock feathers and cracked pistachio distress oxide.

Use a clear sparkle pen on the water droplets in the inky band to give them some shimmer. Use the same sparkle pen in the white areas of the seahorse.

The final part is to add glossy accents onto the ink splat ‘bubbles’ and also randomly across the band.

Stamps Used:

(please click on the picture to be taken direct to the stamp set in the online store):

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Sharon Traynor is here to inspire you today with an absolutely stunning card…

Hi there! This is my first post of 2018 so firstly I want to wish you all

a very happy, peaceful and prosperous New Year.

Today I’m sharing a card made with two stamps from the gorgeous ‘No Space for Dreams’ set by Visible Image stamps. This is an incredible set and the images and words are just stunning!

I make lots of cards like this one because I love the shape (although this would also work perfectly well on a square or rectangular shaped card) and I also love water colouring by pouncing distress stains.

I’m lucky enough to own a ScanNcut which makes creating a card this shape so easy. I just use the in-built octagon shape, add 2 of the same size (145mm x145mm) slightly overlapped, and weld them together to make the card blank. Then I cut a single octagon the same size in watercolour paper for the main mat, and a smaller one (130mm x 130mm) for the main panel. I cut one more octagon shape from white card for the tiny mat behind the main panel.

TIP: If you have this shaped stackable spellbinders dies, you can create a mini card blank by folding a piece of card in half and using the largest die. Just make sure the cutting edge on the shape is outside where the card is folded on the folded side (i.e. the dies is cutting nothing on that side) so that it doesn’t cut 2 individual shapes.

To make this card, first stamp the amazing dreamcatcher image in clear ink and heat emboss with white embossing powder. Mask off the feathers with masking fluid. Wet the area of the card that you want to be all inky and ‘pounce’ distress stains over the area. Dry with a heat tool and when almost dry, spritz water on it to create some added interest.

Create the outside mat in the same way: wet, pounce, dry and spritz.

Stamp the wonderful sentiment in a black ink. Use a little salty ocean distress ink on the edges of the main panel, stick it to the white mat and then stick these to the main mat. They can all be adhered to the card blank now.

You have no idea how tempted I was to add some stickles or glitter to this, but I’m sure we’re all glittered out after the holidays, so I managed to restrain myself.

For the inside of the card, I used the feathers and the ‘dangly bits’ from the dreamcatcher stamp along the top and the sentiment came from the Imagine, Dream, Inspire set.

The feathers were loosely coloured with the same distress stains used on the front of the card.

Stamps Used:

(please click on the picture to be taken direct to the stamp set in the online store):

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We will be back tomorrow with some super sparkly inspiration from Pauline Butcher, and an awesome journal page from Josefine Fouarge!

Right we better get back to our Creativation preparations.. so much to do and the days are flying by! If you are coming to the show, be sure to come and see us… Booth #539 in the International Pavilion!

We’ll be sharing previews of our BRAND NEW stamps all next week… we just know you are going to love them! ♡

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Pop back tomorrow to see NEW Design Team member Lanette Erickson’s gorgeous first project!

I can’t believe that it’s Thursday again already and here I am sharing another Visible Image stamps project with you all.

This time I used the ‘Shining Bright ‘set of stamps and kept with our July challenge theme of ‘A Splash of Colour’.

I do enjoy creating CAS (clean and simple) cards – it makes a change from my usual inky mixed media style. The lights and words are stamped with black Archival ink, and I used a water brush and Mustard Seed Distress Ink to colour the lights in. A touch of Black Soot Distress Ink around the matted sentiment just pops it of the page. The ‘wires’ are just drawn in with a black pen and ruler.

so we won’t be blogging for a few weeks. But do not worry… we will be catching up with all the amazing Design Team projects on our return.

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